On February 1st we celebrated the feast day of St Brigid, we listened to the story of Brigid’s life and coloured in a picture of her beautiful cloak. To celebrate the feast day we had an extra treat at snack time.
To finish our literacy for the week we enjoyed writing independent sentences from a word bank for The Queen of Tarts.
On Monday 5th February we started the ‘d’ sound. Sr Rosemary came the same day to bless our throats as Saturday 3rd was the Feast Day of St Blaise. Mrs Mc Parland read the story Farmer Duck, then we watched a video of the author, Michael Rosen reading the story. We we very engaged when learning facts about dinosaurs and tried very hard to draw a dinosaur after we had finished our sentences. We continue to work on CVC words and high frequency words.
On Friday 9th we wore red to school, decorated our own pancake for snack and enjoyed party boxes in the dining hall.
After the mid term break we were introduced to ‘h’ and were excellent at naming words beginning with “h”, Mrs Mc Parland was very pleased! We listened to the story, The Little Red Hen and labelled the characters. Our next sound was ‘g’ and our story was, The Gruffalo. We sequenced the story and were very keen to write sentences about the Gruffalo.
We have been working cooperatively in all the play areas and are excellent at tidying up.
Our class walked up through the school forest to look at Mabel’s Tower. (It is in our ECO garden)
On February 20th adults and children walked to Bagenal’s Castle to learn about castles. We learnt that Sir Nicholas Bagenal built the castle and that his children lived on the top floor. His youngest daughter was called Mable.
In numeracy we worked on numbers 11 and 12, counted forwards in 1s to 12, found the number before, after and between, explored number bonds within 10 using ladybird partition boards and addition boards. We consolidated our knowledge of patterns on Topmarks.co.uk and learnt that patterns are a repeating sequence of colours, pictures, shapes and size.
